The Lieutenant

6.0

1963•1h

Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, The Lieutenant focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, The Lieutenant explores the lives of enlisted Marines and general officers alike.

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Seasons

29 Episodes • Premiered 1963

1. A Million Miles From Clary

Stew Sallaway, champion goldbrick at Clary High, could always depend on his buddy Bill Rice to get him out of a jam. Now Stew is a Marine private, and his ailing father asks Rice to have the boy to his platoon.

2. Cool of the Evening

3. The Proud and the Angry

4. Two-Star Giant

5. A Very Private Affair

6. To Take Up Serpents

7. A Touching of Hands

8. Captain Thomson

9. Instant Wedding

Rice is pressed upon by a friend to look after his girl in advance of a year-long posting in the far east without leave. She demands they marry right away, and it falls on Rice to quickly put together a formal Marine wedding ceremony.

10. A Troubled Image

11. Fall From A White Horse

12. Alert

13. The Art of Discipline

14. The Alien

15. O'Rourke

An ex Marine who is also a journalist is assigned to Rice's unit to do an article on the modern Marine core. Rice quickly discovers not is all as it should be in the situation.

16. Gone the Sun

Rice returns to his home town to aid in the burial of a Marine killed in a training accident. He has to deal with the grieving family of the boy as well as the changes that have occurred since he has been away.

17. Between Music and Laughter

18. Interlude

19. Capp's Lady

20. Green Water Green Flag

21. To Set It Right

22. In the Highest Tradition

23. Tour of Duty

24. Lament for a Dead Goldbrick

25. Man with an Edge

26. Operation: Actress

27. Mother Enemy

A young sergeant is being evaluated for officer training, but unexpectedly it's revealed that his mother is a communist agent and she's in town to pitch a rabble-rousing speech at a rally where she will denounce the Marine Corps for not immediately elevating his rank, against his wishes. It falls on Rice to determine what will be done with the sergeant.